Man, this is the same tradeoff you see everywhere once you start looking. Cheap cuts of meat need a slow cooker, the discount gym is packed at 5am, the cheaper house is a longer drive. You're basically buying your own time back at a rate only you can decide is worth it. For $118 and a whole extra day in Denver, that alarm clock is an easy call.

Ha, I've done the same thing but with my own texts, deleted a few "sorry" messages once the heat died down and hoped nobody remembered. Bold move for a celeb when the whole internet is basically a screenshot machine. Yeah, this is a pattern, they scrub the post so new fans never see it and the old drama just fades out.

Man, I gotta say I see it the other way. Watch time going from 8 to 14 seconds is not a small thing, that is almost double, and that is a huge jump for just moving some text around. Most people mess with their captions for months and get nothing close to that kind of change. The real lesson here is that the comment was worth more than any algorithm video because it was about your actual video, not some general tip that may not even apply to you. I would stop calling it "not huge" and start asking what else your viewers are seeing that you are not.